Assigning scheduled tasks and automatically waking your computer is very useful, especially if you want your computer booted and virus-scanned before you arrive at work. There are various programs to do this, but it’s not that hard to do it manually.
1.First go to Control Panel and choose Performance and Maintenance. Click the scheduled tasks icon.
2.Next click on Add Scheduled task to open the Scheduled Tasks Wizard.
3.Browse for the program you want to run or select it from the list. Type the name and select how often you want it to …

I found an article on the web the other day about automatically defragmenting drives and thought that I might just as well post a tutorial about it here. Basically, this allows you to defrag any drive by right-clicking on it and choosing “defrag.”
To enable this, open notepad and paste the following code:
; context_defrag.INF
; Adds Defrag to the right click context menu in Windows XP
[version]
signature=”$CHICAGO$”
[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=AddMe
[AddMe]
HKCR,”Drive\Shell\Defrag\command”,,,”DEFRAG.EXE %1″

Next save it as context_defrag.inf onto your desktop or basically anywhere… (Note: be …

Tired of your XP? Want to buy Vista? Well, don’t. Vista is still full of bugs and not reliable yet. So what’s so good about it? Most people like the new and pretty looks.
It’s a great idea to mix together the good things from both Windows systems: the reliability of XP and looks of Vista.
To do this we need to change the boring XP theme to match the design of Vista, which is not exactly as straightforward as copy-paste, as XP only allows its own handful of themes which are …

Keyboard shortcuts are one of the fastest ways to perform actions and commands.
Your XP has several shortcuts. You probably know some, like Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste), but are you aware of the more advanced commands such as minimizing all windows (WinKey+M or WinKey+D) when you need something from your desktop, or Winkey+E when you need to open My Computer fast?
Here are some of the shortcuts you are likely to need:
Delete- Del (Note: to permanently delete a selected item, press Ctrl+Del.)
Copy – Ctrl+C
Cut – Ctrl+X
Paste – Ctrl+V
Undo – Ctrl+Z
Redo …

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